We lost our Beagle, Jack in October of last year and have been talking about another dog since. We decided to wait until Spring or "the right dog" came along. Well, through a series of events, we brought home a one year old Pug last Saturday afternoon. Skyler (my son) bonded instantly with him and gave him the name "Newton" after remembering the dog that Ol' Lonely had in the Matyag commercials and a stuffed version of that Basset I bought him at the Maytag store a couple of years ago. (During our name discussion, Ben was on his way from Iowa and called from Newton to let us know when he would be arriving so that spurred the memory of the Maytag dog ;-)
